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If you are wondering how many people suffer fatal car crashes caused by cell phone use each year, or if an increase in driver cell phone use has caused a jump in fatal auto accidents, you won’t find an accurate answer. No one knows. Various factors, including drivers not admitting…
Reports of Fatal Contract Worker Injuries Prompt OSHA Initiative According to data recently released on fatal work injuries, Texas had the highest number of contract workers killed on the job in 2011. In just that year, 56 contract workers died from on-the-job injuries in our state. The Bureau of Labor…
The Callahan Law Firm extends its deepest sympathy to all suffering from the West, Texas plant explosion. A deadly Texas plant explosion devastating the town of West killed at least 14 people, many of them volunteer firefighters, injured about 200 others, and destroyed homes within a four-to-five block radius of…
You may have heard that Texas, along with the rest of the country, is experiencing a serious truck driver shortage. Trucking companies cannot find enough drivers able to meet the Department of Transportation’s stringent requirements, and nearly all the drivers they do find leave the profession soon after entering it….
Although the number of DWI arrests decreased during the recent holiday season, concern about Texas’ drunk driving fatality numbers remain in 2013. Each year, drunk driving kills more than a thousand people on Texas roadways. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, alcohol-related crashes injure or kill someone in…
The workplace can sometimes be a dangerous, even deadly place. In Texas, companies employ many individuals in dangerous occupations that have an increased risk of injury on the job, including shipping, construction, manufacturing, energy and transportation. Unfortunately, this increased risk leads to more actual work-related injuries. In April, a worker…
“Texas is the only state in the country that allows employers of any size to decline to carry state-regulated workers’ compensation coverage.” Instead of carrying workers’ compensation insurance, many Texas businesses set up their own injury benefit programs thereby saving themselves a lot of money. In other words, they don’t…
Distracted driving has become a serious problem on Texas’ roads. With the advances in technology in both phones and cars, there are a growing number of ways to become distracted while driving. This poses a danger not only to the driver but also to others on the road as well….
Drunk driving has been the major focus of many highway safety campaigns; however, drug impaired driving is also a significant safety concern. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported in 2003 that about 18 percent of traffic deaths were…
Following high-profile oil pipeline accidents in the U.S., Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Jay Rockefeller IV of West Virginia proposed legislation to improve the safety of the pipeline network that crosses the nation. Despite strong bipartisan and industry support, however, the bill has sat in the Senate…
